Solaris™ 10 Administration Part 1

Summary

This five-day course is designed to cover the essential administration tasks
confronting today's Sun systems administrators. It covers all basic
workstation administration functions, with full hands-on experience at all
stages. The Solaris 10 Visual Administration Solaris Management Console (SMC)
is also covered. For network administrators, this course should be followed
by the Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2)
course.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Solaris up to a level taught in the
Introduction to Solaris course is important, and some previous
administration experience is helpful.

Course Objective

To attain a level of competence performing Solaris administration tasks to
that defined in the Solaris 10 Certified Administrator Part 1 exam. This
involves mainly essential local administration tasks.

Obtaining and installing the latest patches, including clusters and
individual patches. Examining the current patch level of a machine. Removing
patches.

Software Configuration and Package Administration

How to set up and customise a variety of tools, including shells, Common
Desktop Environment, manual pages and AnswerBook. Examining, Installing and
removing software packages using command line utilities, including Solaris
distribution options. Using the Webstart installer mechanism to install
software. Using the Solaris Product Registry. (prodreg)

In-depth explanation of the new Service Management Facility (SMF). Using SMF
utilities to monitor and control boot processes. Adding your own scripts at
system boot. Understanding and changing run levels. Shutting down, suspending
and powering off the system. Power management. Additional information for
previous Solaris versions.

Adding and Maintaining Users

Concepts. Ownership of files, directories and processes. Classes of
user. Adding a user manually, via command line tools and graphically. User
initialisation file management. Password control. Real and effective
id. Using SMC for user management. Introduction to Role Based Access Control
(RBAC) facilities.

Solaris Groups

Overview. The group file. Group identification of files and directories. The
newgrp, groups and chgrp commands. Complete example of creating and using a
group. Using SMC with groups.

System Security

Monitoring access to the system. Using the su (Switch User) command, and
monitoring its use. Restricting file and directory access using protection
mechanisms, including access modes, s and t bits, umask, chown and
chmod. Introduction to Access Control Lists (ACLs).

A machine running Solaris 10 for each student. SPARC hardware is preferable to
PC hardware. Each student should have access to a tape drive and printer.

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